I do. Most sites strip metadata from images anyways. If you’re super worried about it, you can just remove the metadata in windows (or your other os) or prior to upload.

I keep it on because I use my phone for geotagging trees on campus for labs.

It’s not really the same though. It’s reliant on a host PC.

I used trebuchet for my launcher, it’s a lineageos app but iirc there’s a downloader for it. It’s not super customizable but I like it

There’s a fork of atom called pulsar and its being worked on still.

A decent amount of people use arc now because it’s good value. I’m on Iris Xe integrated graphics which is basically baby Arc. I don’t know if it has all of Arc’s quirks or just some.

Even on my old graphics card, which did have dx9 support, it helped. Now older titles might have better performance on new drivers.

This is gonna be more windows centric as I game on windows, but I do use dxvk so it’s probably not going to be that far off.

I5-1135G7, iris xe 80 eu, 16 gb of ram. I got around 40 fps in the benchmark on dx9, 50 fps on dxvk. This was on older Intel arc drivers. Vulkan performance has been consistent on their drivers but there may be some improvement. I was running 1080p medium settings, no anti aliasing and tri-linear as filtering.

I had an old i7 8550u laptop with a Radeon 530 2GB DDR3 graphics card. It ran GTA IV about the same with an older version of dxvk, but it had some performance issues because I couldn’t find a higher wattage adapter for it and would throttle.

ALSO TURN OFF SHADOWS. For whatever reason, it’s handled by the CPU.

Two things to keep in mind though, I’m on Iris Xe graphics which has poor DX9 performance (it’s done entirely in software idk how) and GTA IV is just a really horrible port on PC. It’s cpu rendered shadows and just general jank. Early parts of the map run much worse.

Performance increases were mild but noticable. On both my old computer (i7 8550U and a Radeon 530 2 GB DDR3 gpu) and new computer (i5-1135G7 and Iris XE graphics), I got better frametime consistency and a noticable improvement in fps

It’s also been a while since I’ve played GTA IV. I was running older drivers then and there have been major improvements since.

Edit: vulkan performance has been somewhat consistent on Arc but I was using 2017 drivers due to stability issues. I’d probably see a marginal increase running modern drivers using dxvk.

I used dxvk on windows and it was a definite improvement for GTA iv.